I really hesitate to say "this time its different" because that's been used for decades now to justify why some ideal of progress is gonna work this time after its failed so badly in the past, BUT
we've never had such an energy dependent society with so much money printing and so much communication. It struck the other day how creepy it was that the world was so in sync with the lockdowns and masks. And that the people who initiated them would want to exercise that power again. They are egoists so why wouldn't they?
But I thought about it some more and the one thing about our elite our rulers our upper crust these days is that they are almost universally adult children. Their boomer upbringing has they constantly whining and feeling like deserve more. These people had the chance to enact their full digital helltopia and they didn't pull it off. They also could have mandated vaccines for everyone in the US and they didn't. It wasn't the constitution stopping them or the courts either. It's like they can't focus long enough for world domination. I'm not ruling out magical intervention either. But basically these people who people hold up as evil overlords can't keep it up. They are impotent when they need to perform for the long term.
Huh that word impotence has a lot of power. Gonna use that more often.
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Re: Internet's Effect on Covid Response
Date: 2022-12-08 11:32 am (UTC)we've never had such an energy dependent society with so much money printing and so much communication. It struck the other day how creepy it was that the world was so in sync with the lockdowns and masks. And that the people who initiated them would want to exercise that power again. They are egoists so why wouldn't they?
But I thought about it some more and the one thing about our elite our rulers our upper crust these days is that they are almost universally adult children. Their boomer upbringing has they constantly whining and feeling like deserve more. These people had the chance to enact their full digital helltopia and they didn't pull it off. They also could have mandated vaccines for everyone in the US and they didn't. It wasn't the constitution stopping them or the courts either. It's like they can't focus long enough for world domination. I'm not ruling out magical intervention either. But basically these people who people hold up as evil overlords can't keep it up. They are impotent when they need to perform for the long term.
Huh that word impotence has a lot of power. Gonna use that more often.